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"Beating Of Army Reserve Officer Demonstrates Need For Georgia Hate Crimes Law"

In Atlanta Georgio on September 16 the Anti Defamation League (ADL) has commented on the need for a hate crimes law in Georgia. An Army Reserve officer by the name of Tashawnea Hill was brutally assaulted at a Cracker Barrel in Morrow, Georgia. Hill is an african american woman who asked a man by the name of Troy Dale West to please watch the door so that it would not hit her seven year old daughter. The man was angered when Hill said this and he began to assault her. Witnesses say that the assualt got worse as West screamed out racial slurs at Hill. West was arrested and charged with battery, disorderly conduct, and cruelty to children in the first degree. The ADL has stated that in 2010 they will be pushing for a new law in the legislation session.

I agree with the ADL in the fact that there is a need for hate crime laws not only in Georgia, but everywhere in the United States. I believe that the way West acted was definately because he had something against African Americans. If Hill was not African American I think that the day would have gone on as normal with no harm done. Hill did not do anything wrong. She politely asked West to watch the door so it would not hit her seven year old daughter.
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